What is wrong with our policy?

I'm just gonna go on a rant.
Honestly, I noticed that the US government and our coalition has been doing little to Daesh (ISIL, ISIS, IS, etc.) to stop it, which is rather upsetting. I've heard theories about us going into wars for oil which I intially doubted, but now I'm starting to second guess.

Daesh is arguably bigger than Al Qaeda in its primetime (pre-9/11). They have affiliates in a lot of countries and have carried out multiple attacks outside of Iraq and Syria (Bangladesh, Tunisia, France, Belgium, etc.). But yet we're still just dropping bombs and special forces? I'm not saying "Oh lets have Afghanistan v2" but I think the US and Obama is doing less for their reputation. Obama keeps on saying "no boots on the ground" but I think more force is neccesary at this point. Daesh is still carrying out these attacks.

On the Iraq War, we went in for speculation that Saddam was making weapons of mass destruction and supporting Al Qaeda. And even then, other countries have made these types of weapons and have been accused of supporting terrorist groups (in particular groups like Hezbollah and Hamas). Assad and Syria had chemical weapons and supported groups like PIJ. Afghanistan is understandable but still kind of unnessecary. I mean, the Taliban actually offered to hand over Bin Laden if the US stopped sending missiles. The Taliban is essentially a stricter version of Saudi Arabia, and I don't support the Taliban at all. But if the US could have such a great relationship with Saudi Arabia, what about the Taliban?

Back to Syria and Iraq, the US also has to deal with Assad. Assad is one of the major reasons for the war and taking him out of power will help Syria, but this must be done in a different fashion. Syria is essentially identical to Libya and Gaddafi, and NATO helped the rebels attack Gaddafi. However at the same time, it brought Libya to what it is now. So I think this should be done in a different fashion. Now I'm not saying that the US should get itself in every civil war, but the Syrian Civil War will affect the US because it empowers groups like Daesh and Al Qaeda.

Also, groups like Al Qaeda and Daesh will keep on popping up. The unfortunate and perverted extremist ideology will give spawn to groups that have nothing to do with Islam. In my opinion what needs to be done is that the west should find out what drives people to go to these groups. Poverty? Hate? The west should find these problems and deal with them, so these groups will become isolated and not as big as they are right now.

Just my opinion, and I'm sure there are disagreements.

 

I swear on any religious texts that I am who I say I am.

 

I'm surprised you said that, thank you
Honestly though, I am 13. I usually get my news from a variety of sources on the internet, and a lot of people I meet on the internet say "You're mature for your age," but a lot of kids at my school are similar to me in that fashion.

 

The thing with Islam (in my opinion) is wahabism from Saudi Arabia which is the basis for these groups. People have the idea of needing to put an end to it but look at the Cold War. The west was saying "Communism needs to die" and the east was saying "Capitalism needs to die" and now we still have capitalist countries (US, Canada, Japan) not to mention on the other side, China, North Korea, Cuba, and (ironically) Vietnam. You can't kill an ideology.
As for withdrawing our interventions, agreeably we would be making a lot of progress if we tended to ourselves more.

You are pretty correct. I mean, one of the reasons why some in the middle east have a disliking towards us is because of the Israeli/Palestinian question, and these people see us through those lenses because we supported Israel. In fact, one of the reasons why Iran nowadays dislikes the us dates back to the revolution, because our government supported the Shah who imprisoned political foes, was a dictator, and even had a secret police (SAVAK) to do his bidding. And this was because then-Persia had valuable oil resources. As for Europe, look at Ukraine. A lot of unrest is occurring because of that alone and Daesh adds to that, and the whole fiasco with the UK leaving the EU.

Agreeably, yes, ISIS doesn't threaten the US's very existence and neither does Assad, but then this brings me to something else. Like, you said, Iraq was a failure. Saddam didn't pose a threat to the US' existence unless he supported Al Qaeda, which wasn't even proven. However we still went into Iraq and bombed Gaddafi who didn't pose a threat either (although this was a UN thing).

Trump seems to be (though I'm not much of a fan of him) more towards the isolation thing, but I'm not sure about Clinton. The middle east has also been a powder keg which is affecting the powder keg you mention in Europe.

 

I agree, Islam is a great religion. Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. Like I said, it's wahabism but even then that's kind of good minus how groups try to spin it for terrorist acts. On our side, interestingly you're correct. Our government has all of this harmful stuff like tobacco and drinking legalized, which makes no sense.

Also, I'm not sure if that's true but I watched a video where this guy was interviewing a Muslim that said that the Mossad and CIA created Daesh, and the people "covered their hands so you wouldn't see that they're white". This seems kind of related in a sense.

 

At the time Arabia had little to no governing authority so rules had to be implaced to provide some sort of authority to Muslims, and certain laws in themselves can be seen as contextual of that time.

As for Muhammad and Aisha, while it is undeniable that Aisha was 6 at the time of consummation, without relation (which can be considered a poor argument) to Christianity and the considered age of maturity, Aisha was considered matured and on Muhammad's part he was actually shown to have encouraged similar-age group marriages.

 

Yeah I know. Aisha was 6 at the time of marriage and 9 at consummation. However, the age of maturity varies from place to place, culture to culture, and religion to religion. Aisha did not bear children with Muhammad.

 

Nazism (Germany's ideology at the time) is considered a form of fascism. While the treaty of Versailles was poorly done alongside most victor land-division treaties (middle east anyone?), Austria was annexed because while a large majority supported Nazism, the government wanted to remain independent and the chancellor resigned under threat of invasion. Even without Britain, Germany invaded Poland and then violated the Soviet treaty and invaded the east.